WA senior homes with COVID outbreaks get no response from pharmacies
Many senior living communities were expecting to begin Covid vaccinations next week. But they say they haven’t gotten any specific information from CVS and Walgreens, who are to provide the vaccine.
Other retirement homes in the midst of an outbreak are being given Covid vaccination dates weeks in the future. They say time is precious and delays could cost lives.
CVS and Walgreens are partnering with the federal government to administer Covid vaccinations to residents and staff of long-term care facilities, which have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic.
On Wednesday, the head of Covid vaccination planning for the Washington State Department of Health, Michele Roberts said on a media briefing that facilities registered with the CDC’s program would begin vaccinations on December 28th. CVS sent KUOW a press release saying the same thing.
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